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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To complain peevishly or whimperingly; whine.
  2. v. To talk volubly and loudly.
  3. v. To utter or say in a complaining or clamorous tone.
  4. n. The act of yammering.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To lament; wail; shriek; yell; cry aloud; whimper loudly; whine.
  2. To yearn; desire.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To complain peevishly.
  2. v. To talk loudly and persistently.
  3. v. To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.
  4. v. To make an outcry; to clamor.
  5. n. The act or noise of yammering.
  6. n. A loud noise.
  7. n. One who yammers.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cry loudly, as of animals
  2. v. complain whiningly

Etymologies

  1. Middle English yameren, to lament, probably from Middle Flemish jammeren, to be sorrowful.

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